Modern society is characterized by dynamic and sophisticated changes in terrorism activities. As a result, terror cells such as al-Qa’ida are a major threat among policymakers, intelligence agencies, and multinational firms in the United States. The U.S. government is continuously formulating policies of gathering intelligence against terror groups. For instance, the U.S. has formulated the Counter Intelligence Centre (CIC) to facilitate the monitoring and intelligence collection against this threat. The information the CIC gathers forms a crucial reference point during the formulation of significant security decisions. Therefore, an analysis of al-Qa’ida will enable policy and decision makers to formulate effective policies on handling potential
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Essentially, al-Qa’ida’s strengths include ideological simplicity, a powerful global brand name, and an open membership policy. The simplicity in al-Qa’ida’s message is appealing to a large portion of individuals in the contemporary society. The group’s message revolves around dissenting the U.S. invasion into Muslim countries. Moreover, al-Qa’ida’s message condemns U.S. economic, political, and religious sabotage against the Muslim community. As a result, al-Qa’ida’s message appeals to a large number of young people who join the terror group with an aim of curbing the West’s atrocities against …show more content…
The group is thought to have a strong presence not only in Pakistan, but also in Somalia and Yemen. Moreover, when Ayman al-Zawahiri took over as the group’s leader after bin Laden’s execution at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs in May of 2011, the group continued to expand with cells located in Sudan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Oman. In 2013, the organization had also established a significant presence in Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Mali, Somalia, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Nigeria, and
Essentially, al-Qa’ida’s strengths include ideological simplicity, a powerful global brand name, and an open membership policy. The simplicity in al-Qa’ida’s message is appealing to a large portion of individuals in the contemporary society. The group’s message revolves around dissenting the U.S. invasion into Muslim countries. Moreover, al-Qa’ida’s message condemns U.S. economic, political, and religious sabotage against the Muslim community. As a result, al-Qa’ida’s message appeals to a large number of young people who join the terror group with an aim of curbing the West’s atrocities against …show more content…
The group is thought to have a strong presence not only in Pakistan, but also in Somalia and Yemen. Moreover, when Ayman al-Zawahiri took over as the group’s leader after bin Laden’s execution at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs in May of 2011, the group continued to expand with cells located in Sudan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Oman. In 2013, the organization had also established a significant presence in Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Mali, Somalia, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Nigeria, and